Tag Archives: Central Europe

The peopling of Europe by waves of migration into melting pots of genes

Posted on October 11, 2013 by

Europe’s Stone Age settlers migrated in waves that replaced older hunter-gatherer cultures, suggests a study that looks at European DNA, both ancient and modern. The results reported in the journal, Science, answer questions about the peopling of modern-day Europe. Continue reading →

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Hunter-gatherers persisted till 5,000 years ago (and are still around today)

Posted on October 11, 2013 by

I take permanent or semi-permanent settlements to be evidence of a lifestyle which had departed from being a purely hunter.gatherer lifestyle. Continue reading →

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